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# key.com robots.txt
# Last updated: August 2026
# AI crawler governance added — see sections below
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# SECTION 1: GENERAL CRAWLERS (all bots not named below)
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /kco/images/2017_KBCM_Technology_Group_Private_SaaS_Company_Survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2024_kbcm_sapphire_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/kbcm_2023_sapphire_ventures_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2022_kbcm_saas_survey_10-20-22_vF.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/cf/disclosure/businesses-institutions/lockbox-processing-platform-updates.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/small_business/kbbo_pay_with_wire_user_guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/internal-assets/


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# SECTION 2: AI SEARCH & RETRIEVAL CRAWLERS (ALLOW)
# These bots power AI search results and citations.
# Allowing them keeps KeyBank visible in ChatGPT Search,
# Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and similar products.
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# OpenAI — SearchGPT / ChatGPT Search
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# OpenAI — live user requests in ChatGPT
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Perplexity AI — search retrieval
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Perplexity AI — live user requests
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic — Claude search retrieval (legacy)
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /


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# SECTION 3: AI TRAINING CRAWLERS
# Public content allowed for brand presence in future models.
# Proprietary research and internal assets are blocked.
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# OpenAI — GPT model training
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /kco/images/2017_KBCM_Technology_Group_Private_SaaS_Company_Survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2024_kbcm_sapphire_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/kbcm_2023_sapphire_ventures_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2022_kbcm_saas_survey_10-20-22_vF.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/cf/disclosure/businesses-institutions/lockbox-processing-platform-updates.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/small_business/kbbo_pay_with_wire_user_guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/internal-assets/

# Anthropic — Claude model training
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /kco/images/2017_KBCM_Technology_Group_Private_SaaS_Company_Survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2024_kbcm_sapphire_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/kbcm_2023_sapphire_ventures_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2022_kbcm_saas_survey_10-20-22_vF.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/cf/disclosure/businesses-institutions/lockbox-processing-platform-updates.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/small_business/kbbo_pay_with_wire_user_guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/internal-assets/

# Anthropic — legacy training crawler
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /kco/images/2017_KBCM_Technology_Group_Private_SaaS_Company_Survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2024_kbcm_sapphire_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/kbcm_2023_sapphire_ventures_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2022_kbcm_saas_survey_10-20-22_vF.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/cf/disclosure/businesses-institutions/lockbox-processing-platform-updates.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/small_business/kbbo_pay_with_wire_user_guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/internal-assets/

# Google — Gemini training (policy token only — no separate user agent string)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /kco/images/2017_KBCM_Technology_Group_Private_SaaS_Company_Survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2024_kbcm_sapphire_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/kbcm_2023_sapphire_ventures_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2022_kbcm_saas_survey_10-20-22_vF.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/cf/disclosure/businesses-institutions/lockbox-processing-platform-updates.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/small_business/kbbo_pay_with_wire_user_guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/internal-assets/

# Meta — Llama model training
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /kco/images/2017_KBCM_Technology_Group_Private_SaaS_Company_Survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2024_kbcm_sapphire_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/kbcm_2023_sapphire_ventures_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2022_kbcm_saas_survey_10-20-22_vF.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/cf/disclosure/businesses-institutions/lockbox-processing-platform-updates.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/small_business/kbbo_pay_with_wire_user_guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/internal-assets/

# Meta — Facebook AI training
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /kco/images/2017_KBCM_Technology_Group_Private_SaaS_Company_Survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2024_kbcm_sapphire_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/kbcm_2023_sapphire_ventures_saas_survey.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/businesses___institutions/2022_kbcm_saas_survey_10-20-22_vF.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/cf/disclosure/businesses-institutions/lockbox-processing-platform-updates.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/documents/small_business/kbbo_pay_with_wire_user_guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/kco/internal-assets/


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# SECTION 4: AGGRESSIVE / NON-COMPLIANT SCRAPERS (BLOCK ALL)
# These crawlers feed less-regulated pipelines and have a
# poor track record of honoring robots.txt directives.
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# ByteDance / TikTok AI training
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Common Crawl — bulk scraper used by many unvetted pipelines
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Diffbot — commercial data extraction
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /


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